[President Obama] follows in the footsteps of other presidents with a similar vision, the vision at the heart of the Progressive movement that flourished a hundred years ago. Many of the trends, problems and disasters of our time are a legacy of that era...

"Often wrong but never in doubt" is a phrase that summarizes much of what was done by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the two giants of the Progressive era, a century ago. Their legacy is very much alive today...

A passage in [Lincoln's speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, in 1838] was particularly prescient, even for Lincoln, and warrants revisiting in this day of presidential proclamations and executive czars owing allegiance only to the president...

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Dewy-eyed predictions of democracy within the year proved to be as silly as they appeared to be back then. Instead, a power-hungry military leadership shows it will do whatever necessary to remain in the saddle...

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Sidney Drell, an arms control specialist, is a professor of theoretical physics emeritus at Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He has advised the executive and legislative branches of government on national security and technical defense issues for more than four decades.

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